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englischer Text, Gerechtigkeit Gottes - Jazzter - 06-03-2005
Social justice and Christian faith
The Bible makes radical demands for social justice, but as the church became more and more involved with power, the sharpness of this demand was blunted. The result is that the modern reader of the Bible may fail to notice the meaning, and the Christian of today may not realise the nature of his or her own calling.
Let us take an example. The Greek work dikaiosune may refer to the quality of justice, or to the character of people who practice justice. In the latter case, it is often translated